Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! Fall is almost here, bringing with it football, flannel, decorative gourds, and approximately 11 days of perfect weather before the forecast turns into a damp gray hostage situation. Of course, we’re not actually in fall yet, and that’s for two very important reasons: The

Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! Yesterday, we lost what might have been the closest thing America ever had to a universally beloved celebrity. Dolly Parton died yesterday at 80 after a brief battle with cancer, ending a life that somehow stretched from a one-room cabin in the mountains of

Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! College football returns next week, which means it’s time for preseason rankings, playoff predictions, Heisman odds, and dozens of other things we’ll confidently say now and pretend we never said by October. But forget the AP Poll. I’ve done some research, and today we’re

Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! Today is my 30th birthday. It still doesn’t feel real that my age now starts with a “th-,” but apparently the government has the paperwork to prove it. They say wisdom comes with age, and I’m disappointed to report that there may actually be

Good morning, and welcome to The Ship Show! Football returns tomorrow night, provided we use the word “football” generously. The Panthers and Cardinals will open the NFL preseason in the Hall of Fame Game, where both teams will bravely determine which backup quarterback can hand the ball off most convincingly. The NFL